Feminism
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Feminism Defined:
The advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.
History:
"The word itself, feminisme, was being used to describe the activities of women like Hubertine Audert, A french suffragist, in the late 1800s. Feminisme was a cool word like calling someone hip or savy. It denoted youth, psychology, sexiness, financial independence and self" (Baumgardner & Richards 51)
"Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, a German philosopher, described such a structure in 1529: 'By the excessive power of male tyranny which prevails against divine justice and the laws of nature, women's liberty is denied to them by law, suppressed to them by custom and usage and eradicated by upbringing'" (Baumgardner & Richards 51)
"Ideas behind this word were planted in Europe sometime before the late period of Western imperial expansion around A.D 1400. In 1405, Christine de Pisan, a Parisian scholar, wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, in which she argued that there have been women rulers in France throughout history who challenged the patriarchal structure"
(Baumgardner & Richards 50-51)